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  • Creator Matthew A. Cherry delivers Hair Love, a 7 minute animated short film that centers around the relationship between an African-American father, Stephen, his daughter, Zuri an

  • Define Beauty is a video series by Nowness looking at the provocation and politics of attraction. Visual Artist Rhea Dillon contributes with "Process," an exploration of what it me

  • Online magazine The Root shares an op-ed video from U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley about her experiments with different hairstyles and textures. From locs to wigs to hair loss, Pressley

  • In 2018, Artist Deun Ivory produced "the body: a home for love," a visual storytelling series that explores the narrative of black women who have endured sexual abuse as a result o

  • 56 Black Men is a campaign confronting the negative portrayal of black men within the media and public. Creative Cephas Williams photographs 56 Black men in hoodies to "serve as a

  • Artist and media critic Alexandra Bell interrogates the way the media shapes and spreads information, especially how it impacts our perception of minorities. Bell uses redaction, o

  • For Black History Month 2020, HuffPost released a project aimed to untangle conversations about Black hair, called "Black Hair Defined." The multimedia project celebrates stories o

  • In the early 1960s, we embarked on a new frontier. We organized and came together to ‘shoot for the moon.’ We chose to do the hard things because they weren’t easy. And while in th

  • In the early 1960s, we embarked on a new frontier. We organized and came together to ‘shoot for the moon.’ We chose to do the hard things because they weren’t easy. And while in th